Centos has a good guide to making bootible thumbdrives google it will
prob ably be universal with tweaks
On 11/22/09, Trent Shipley <
tshipley@deru.com> wrote:
> Tuna wrote:
>
>> *bump because the timestamp is crazy-early and probably at the bottom
>> of everyone's mail client*
>>
>> Ryan Rix will tell you Fedora, and can also tell you a thing or two about
>> bootable USB drives on netbooks.
>>
>> Can you tell us what make and model of netbook it is?
>>
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbook
>
> Wound up going with this.
>
>
> HP Mini 110-1125NR
> s/n CNU94438GZ
> p/n VM 135UA#ABA
>
>
>
>> Your messages appear to be getting greylisted, so Ryan may want to take
>> this discussion off list.
>>
>> Excerpts from Trent Shipley's message of Fri Nov 20 17:04:57 -0700 2009:
>>
>>> I just got a netbook and it is running Windows 7 Starter. I intend to
>>> promiscuously attach it to public networks. I figure I can avoid a lot
>>> of heartache by changing the OS to Linux.
>>>
>>>
>>> I already have Kubuntu on my favorite desktop. I like it, except that
>>> after every major upgrade it gets flaky for a while.
>>>
>>>
>>> 1) I'd like to use anything except *ubuntu on the netbook. What are
>>> some promising options?
>>>
>>>
>>> 2) I assume I use a bootable memory stick to start getting the distro,
>>> yes?
>>>
>>>
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